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The result proves the wisdom of the act.

The result proves the wisdom of the act.

Ovid
Results, Prove

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Ovid
Hands, True Strength, Humans

The brave find a home in every land.

Ovid
Home, Land, Bravery

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

Ovid
Giving, Poet, Poor
Ovid, G. P. Goold (1985). “The art of love, and other poems”

When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.

Ovid
Character, Looks, Delight
Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.100, Indiana University Press

Love, and a cough, are not concealed.

Ovid
Love, Latin, Concealed

When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.

Ovid
Memories, Rose, Gone

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid
Men, Deeds, Rewards

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Ovid
Marriage, Men, Wife
Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

Ovid
Friendship, Real, Names

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Ovid
Powerful, Power, Habit

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

Ovid
Years, Feet, Age

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid
Honesty, Adversity, Commitment

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid
Leadership, Vision, Empowering Others

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

Ovid
Happiness, Sunshine, Years

Skill makes love unending.

Ovid
Love, Skills, Making Love
Ovid, G. P. Goold (1985). “The art of love, and other poems”

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

Ovid
Education, Teacher, Mind

I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

Ovid
Fiction, Facts, Speak

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

Ovid
Sports, Play, People
Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.164, Indiana University Press

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

Ovid
Agriculture, Fields, Exhausted

There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

Ovid
Ebb And Flow, Rivers, Shadow

To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

Ovid
Silence, Secret, Faults

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Ovid
Solitude, Obscurity, Wells

Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.

Ovid
Patience, One Day, Unhappiness

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

Ovid
Marriage, Matrimony, Equal

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